John D. Culbertson, age 96, of Waverly died on Tuesday, September 2, 2025, at Bartels Lutheran Retirement Community in Waverly of natural causes.

John was born September 15, 1928, in Waverly, the son of Floyd and Merle (Getts) Culbertson. He graduated from Waverly High School in 1946; UNI in 1950; and Drake Law School in 1954. On June 11, 1951, John and Donna M. Harden were married at Trinity Lutheran Church in Waterloo. Donna passed away in 1987, and on October 22, 1988, John and Myrna Joy Kluiter were married at St. John Lutheran Church in Charles City.

He taught at Gladbrook High School in 1950-51; worked at Chamberlain in Waterloo as an engineer from 1951-52; was a legal technician for Lockheed Aircraft Corp in Burbank, California, in 1955. Upon returning to Iowa later in 1955, he pr

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